Best of SAPIENS 2020
[no-caption] Mint Images/Getty Images This year humanity was confronted with a crush of pressing issues both old and new: a pandemic, political unrest, a widespread reckoning with racism…
Long live the tundra nomads!
Just found out from the local news that in the Novyi Urengoy hospital two Nenets elders survived covid-19 and recovered from pneumonia, at the age of more than…
Tall i rommet
Mange tenker kanskje at matematikk og metaforer står så langt fra hverandre i presisjon og funksjon som det er mulig. Men slik er det slett ikke for oss…
Jihad, universalism, and the Left: A conversation with Darryl Li
Since its publication in 2019, Darryl Li’s The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity (Stanford University Press) has been the focus of a great deal…
John Hartigan Jr., “Shaving the Beasts: Wild Horses and Ritual in Spain” (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
Wild horses still roam the mountains of Galicia, Spain. But each year, in a ritual dating to the 1500s called rapa das bestas, villagers herd these “beasts” together and…
David Henig, “Remaking Muslim Lives: Everyday Islam in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina” (U Illinois Press, 2020)
The violent disintegration of Yugoslavia and the cultural and economic dispossession caused by the collapse of socialism continue to force Muslims in Bosnia and Herzegovina to reconfigure their…
S. L. Lewis and M. A. Maslin, “The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene” (Yale UP, 2018)
Meteorites, mega-volcanoes, and plate tectonics–the old forces of nature–have transformed Earth for millions of years. They are now joined by a new geological force–humans. Our actions have driven…
David Henig, “Remaking Muslim Lives: Everyday Islam in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina” (U Illinois Press, 2020)
The violent disintegration of Yugoslavia and the cultural and economic dispossession caused by the collapse of socialism continue to force Muslims in Bosnia and Herzegovina to reconfigure the……
John Hartigan Jr., “Shaving the Beasts: Wild Horses and Ritual in Spain” (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
Wild horses still roam the mountains of Galicia, Spain. But each year, in a ritual dating to the 1500s called rapa das bestas, villagers herd these “beasts” together and…
S. L. Lewis and M. A. Maslin, “The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene” (Yale UP, 2018)
Meteorites, mega-volcanoes, and plate tectonics–the old forces of nature–have transformed Earth for millions of years. They are now joined by a new geological force–humans. Our actions hav… Visit…
Enkelbiljett till Ahtohallan
Vatten och vattendrag är element som fascinerat och skrämt människan genom tiderna. Det fascinerar för att livet har uppkommit från vattnet, både i modern vetenskap såsom i fler…
La gènesi de l’antropologia religiosa i algunes definicions de religió
La foto és de Matt Weber Apunts de la classe d’Antropologia Religiosa del 12/2/15 La gènesi de l’antropologia religiosa i algunes definicions de religió Manuel DelgadoVaig llegir-vos un…
18. Dezember (Adventskalender)
Jeden Tag ein Türchen, eine Person, ein Gegenstand Die Übungsräume sind verlassen, in den Fluren hallt es: Es ist leer geworden an der Uni und an der Abteilung…
Unsettling the Past: Radically Reimagining Archaeological Knowledge
For decades, Black and Indigenous archaeologists have rightfully called for a radical reimagining of how archaeology interprets and understands the past. The formulation of archaeologies by, for, and…
Guidelines in Action: The University of Colorado Museum Studies Program
Guidelines in Action: The University of Colorado Museum Studies Program …
Iowa’s Grapes of Wrath: Preserving Land for Food Production in the U.S.
Paul Durrenberger In Grapes of Wrath American writer John Steinbeck told the disheartening story of defeated farmers in 1939 Oklahoma. A bulldozer demolishes a shanty as the family…
Podcast #4 is online! Guest: Jochem Kootstra
Jochem Kootstra is onderzoeker, copywriter en programma-maker (om maar een greep uit zijn bezigheden te geven) en bekijkt technologie door een antropologische bril. Door deze bril ziet hij…
Crisis and Opportunity—A Look at 2020
[no-caption] Ada daSilva/Getty Images The Coronavirus Pandemic 2020 will be remembered as the year that COVID-19 swept the globe. This highly contagious virus moves from person to person,…
Infrastructure, Maintenance, and Waste in a Myanmar Hospital by Nora Wuttke
Design by okb-buro.com Hand sketches shown in with this article are by the author from her fieldwork in Yangon in 2020. All images copyright by Nora Wuttke. The…
Nytt tidsskrift for nordisk byforskning er lansert – og åpnet for innsending!
Jobber du med forskning knyttet til byer og det urbane? Da har du i høst fått en ny plattform for å dele din forskning. Denne høsten ble nemlig…
Does COVID-19 Facilitate New Migration? Exploring a Fast-Expanding Indian Diaspora in Germany (#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Amrita Datta Picture 1: Young Indian white collar migrants are protesting at the Brandenbuerger Tor in Berlin against the impending citizenship…
Geschützt: RfM-Jahrestagung 2020: Kritik rassistischer Praktiken
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Michal S. Raucher, “Conceiving Agency: Reproductive Authority Among Haredi Women” (Indiana UP, 2020)
In Conceiving Agency: Reproductive Authority among Haredi Women (Indiana University Press, 2020), Michal Raucher explores the ways ultra-Orthodox Jewish women in Israel make decisions about … Visit New Books in…